James Mailman
- AffiliationAflac
- TitleField Force Liaison Manager
- Age53
- LocationColumbus, Georgia
Location: Columbus, Ga.
At the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Aflac Cancer Center, children walk the halls wearing stacks of beaded necklaces. Each bead, provided through the organization Beads of Courage, represents a procedure that the child went through, giving the kids a sense of ownership and progress as they undergo their treatments. The program at this center is solely funded by a coin drive started by James Mailman, a field liaison manager for Aflac (No. 132). Mailman, whose wife is a cancer survivor, wanted to do something for the children he had seen going through rough treatment protocols, just as his wife had endured. “When you see a small child—I mean a little baby—having chemotherapy going through their veins, it’s hard to imagine.”
Each year, the drive raises $12,000 for the Beads of Courage program, plus extra funding that goes toward the Cancer Center’s wish list. One year, the overflow money went towards buying a rocking chair for every hospital room after Mailman heard about a grandfather who wasn’t allowed to hold his grandson because nurses were afraid he’d drop the baby. Another year, the extra money went to a foosball table for the older kids. Since 2004, Mailman has raised more than $262,000 for the center.
At the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Aflac Cancer Center, children walk the halls wearing stacks of beaded necklaces. Each bead, provided through the organization Beads of Courage, represents a procedure that the child went through, giving the kids a sense of ownership and progress as they undergo their treatments. The program at this center is solely funded by a coin drive started by James Mailman, a field liaison manager for Aflac (No. 132). Mailman, whose wife is a cancer survivor, wanted to do something for the children he had seen going through rough treatment protocols, just as his wife had endured. “When you see a small child—I mean a little baby—having chemotherapy going through their veins, it’s hard to imagine.”
Each year, the drive raises $12,000 for the Beads of Courage program, plus extra funding that goes toward the Cancer Center’s wish list. One year, the overflow money went towards buying a rocking chair for every hospital room after Mailman heard about a grandfather who wasn’t allowed to hold his grandson because nurses were afraid he’d drop the baby. Another year, the extra money went to a foosball table for the older kids. Since 2004, Mailman has raised more than $262,000 for the center.